World War Propaganda Art

A collection of historical propaganda illustrations from World War I and II, featuring caricatures, dramatic colors, and themes of conflict and national identity.

Colour lithograph, First World War propaganda poster for the British Empire Union. The poster depicts Germans behaving in a drunken manner and performing violent acts. The British Empire Union (BEU) was created in the United Kingdom during the First World War in 1916, after changing its name from the Anti-German-Union. Dated 1918

Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Batalla del Marne, Francia. El Mariscal Joseph Joffre (1852-1931) ante unos prisioneros alemanes. Caricatura. Año 1914.

Italy, 20th century, Second World War - Se non ci fosse stata la Marcia su Roma non ci sarebbe oggi la marcia su Mosca. Propaganda poster for the Federation of Italian Leagues of Combat. Illustration by Alberto Amorico, 1942.

Coloured illustration depicting two soldiers taking cover behind a wall of a destroyed city. Signed MAR

Colour lithograph, First World War propaganda poster for the British Empire Union. The poster depicts Germans behaving in a drunken manner and performing violent acts. The British Empire Union (BEU) was created in the United Kingdom during the First World War in 1916, after changing its name from the Anti-German-Union. Dated 1918

World War I, German Poster shows a wounded veteran holding tools in one hand and a crutch in the other, lithograph by Ludwig Hohlwein, 1914-1918.

Soviet Russian poster showing Russia standing up to Nazi Germany, Circa 1941

Switzerland, 1875-1909 part 2. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Switzerland

Soviet Russian poster Invoking past Russian Heroism circa 1942

Private, Gov. Foot Guard, Iowa, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes 1888 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Trade cards from the "MIlitary Series" (N224), issued in 1888 by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.. Private, Gov. Foot Guard, Iowa, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

First World War recruiting poster issued in Ireland.

Miners queue to vote yes to strike action Date: September 1920

Pride in the Fight, Chinese Communist Propaganda

para asegurar nuestra Independencia (to ensure our independence) Republican propaganda poster of the Spanish Civil War

Cartoon, The gourmands. Soldiers with a bowl of apples, a rabbit and a carrot promise a cook that when they return from patrol they will bring him some prisoners. Date: 1916

Image series Conquest of Mexico, Cortez burns the ships in August 1519, Liebig painting, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Propaganda poster for the French Army Infantry Day in May 1939

Policeman inspects a work pass for a man collapsed on the pavement. 19th century France. French illustration 1890

Policeman prepares to fight. 19th century France. French illustration 1890

Cartoon - New Nazi Salute. John Collins (1917-2007)

Saxon Chasseur, Germany, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes 1888 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Trade cards from the "MIlitary Series" (N224), issued in 1888 by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.. Saxon Chasseur, Germany, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

CNT (Anarchist republican) propaganda poster supporting the heroic Merchant Marine who secured supplies for the people during the Spanish Civil War

This is what awaits peasants and workers because of the activities of deserters, self-seekers, and cowards by Anonymous / Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1918-1919/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ 49,5x67/ History,Poster and Gr

Lend as they fight - Buy more Liberty Bonds - USA WWI Poster showing soldiers in battle, firing their weapons

World War I 1914-1918: Fünfte Kriegs-Anleihe, 1916. Austrian poster for the issue of the Fifth War Loan to fund hostilities. Soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets, charging. Government Finance

Nazi Party Election Poster, "One Can Only Combat Terror from the Left with Sharper Terror", Germany, 1920's

The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 - September 2, 1945), called so after the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1941. China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany (until 1941), the Soviet Union (1937-1940) and the United States. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. It also made up more than 50% of the casualties in the Pacific War if the 1937-1941 period is taken into account.

German propaganda poster from World War I. 'So hilft dein Geld Dir kämpfen! In U-Boote verwandelt, hält es Dir feindliche Granaten vom Leib! Darum: zeichne Kriegsanleihe!', translated as 'This is how your money helps you fight! Turned into submarines, it keeps enemy shells away! That's why you should subscribe to war bonds

France, 20th century, Second World War - Anti-Nazi propaganda poster, ""Entre le Marteau... et l'Enclume!""

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, improvises a speech before his Generals after the cessation of hostilities between the German Third Reich and the French government. Armistice of June 22, 1940. Design by Biffiganndi. La Domenica del Corriere.

Red army soldier, fight the destruction!. Poster. 1920. Propaganda poster

French world war two poster calling for a week of national solidarity 1944

The Russians gamble - and lose ! (Death rakes in the fallen..) Date: 1915

France, 1896 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

only the party of the proletariat will crush fascism declares a Communist republican propaganda poster, during the Spanish Civil War

The 20th anniversary of the NKVD Border Guards by Sokolov-Skalya, Pavel Petrovich (1899-1961)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1941/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ History,Poster and Graphic design

Each Stroke of a Hammer Is a Blow Against the Enemy, USSR - Bolshevik & Soviet

Long live the Stalin's fosterlings: Ivan Papanin, Ernst Krenkel, Evgeny Fedorov and Petr Shirshov, Pravdin, Vladislav Grigoryevich (*1916)

España. Legión española. Campaña de Marruecos (1911-1927). Ataques de la artillería para proteger el avance de las tropas del Tercio hacia Zeluán. Author: APEL·LES MESTRES I OÑÓS.

French World War One propaganda poster, issued to commutate British French Alliance. Dated 1917

For the Flag, For Victory, World War I

España. Guerra civil (1936-1939). Portada de la revista La Ciento Diez, portavoz de la brigada 110. Año II, nº 23. Publicada en las trincheras del frente de Madrid, mayo de 1938.

Digitally restored vector war propaganda poster. This vintage World War One poster features an American G.I. holding his rifle and motioning for you to come join the fight. The poster declares - An Appeal To You, and has soldiers marching in to battle in the background.

An act of heroism at the front Date: 1915

Sketches and Drawings of WW I - Our Feet Shall Stand Within Thy Gates, O Jerusalem. Psalm CXXII.

French world war two postcard showing an infantry soldier

Cartel satírico de la CNT-UGT. Editado en Francia. Zona Republicana. Año 1937. Guerra civil 1936-1939.

Color illustration from around 1900 by an anonymous artist depicting a female soldier featured in a lottery poster, showing figure and symbolic elements.

Trench in K.K. Prater - Navy School - Görz and Surroundings - War and Sanitary Dogs Restaurants, Cafes, Walks - Entrance Freins - Illustration of a soldier in the trench with rifle in the stop, in the background Warships

Revolutionary soldiers in St Petersburg arrest army generals of the Tsarist military, February 1917

Workers Soldiers Gather, Chinese Communist Propaganda

Where the Dutch potatoes gone ..., Willem van Schaik, 1914 - 1918 Three soldiers with a long jacket and Prussian helmet sit on the table. Seen on the back, one from the front. In the middle of the table is a bowl of steaming potatoes. Two soldiers with potato on fork. Left beer mug with lid. Netherlands paper printing

We Will Beat the Enemy with our Bolshevik Harvest Gathering, Sittaro, Alexei Gumbertovich (1906-1942)

According to the rumour, British troops on the Western Front are living a life of luxury, while the French get on with the fighting Date: 1917

Soldier holding Phone.

Pittsburgh Photog Covers Long Voyage to India. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Carl F. Schneider of 7105 Campania Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., covered the mission of a Coast Guard-manned transport to Australia and India. This painting is by Coast Guard combat artist Joseph Digemma, of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Long live Soviet pilots, the proud falcons of our native land!, Vatolina, Nina Nikolayevna (1915-2002)

Republican postcard celebrating Soviet military aid during the Spanish Civil War

Black Cat Cigarettes, World war One, propaganda card showing: The Dutch Junkers. 'At least we shall get posts as gamekeepers when Germany takes us after the war.' Illustration for The Great War A Neutral's Indictment

The surrender of the Ottoman garrison of Ioannina (Jannina) after the Battle of Bizani fought between the Greek and the Ottoman forces during the last stages of the First Balkan War. Date: 1912

Duke of Abruzzi, 1873-1933, conquers peak of Mt Blanc 1900

Censorship of the German Press, 1906. The more serious the life, the clearer the art. A shackled cartoonist and his captors. Cartoon from the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus, 1906.

American Fund for French Wounded - World War I Poster

Six of Hearts - French soldiers carrying a casualty on a stretcher. Tański, Czesław (1862-1942), draughtsman, cartoonist

Patriotic Demonstration of the Russian troops and workers in 1904 by Michael, Arthur C. (active 1903-1925) / Private Collection / 1904 / Great Britain / Watercolour on paper / Genre,History /

Bertrand du Guesclin or Gueselin (c1320-1380) Eagle of Brittany, Constable of France from 1370. Guesclin captured at Battle of Auroy and held to ransom by Duke of Brittany, 1364. Hundred Years War Trade Card

Wireless telegraphy by Louis Dalrymple, 1866-1905, artist. John Bull labelled England standing on a rock labelled South Africa, holding a sword in one hand and a British flag labelled Good Will in the other; he is looking back at Uncle Sam who is standing on ground labelled U.S. and holding aloft an American flag labelled Good Will. Illustration from Puck, 1899.

Red guard soldiers and armoured car 1920

Propaganda poster to stimulate war efforts in Australia with threat of Japanese soldier. Dated 1942

Tank Men by Shukhmin, Pyotr Mitrofanovich (1894-1955) State Museum- and exhibition Centre ROSIZO, Moscow 1928 Oil on canvas 203x231 Russia Soviet Art Genre,History Painting

Ardent proletarian greetings to the Chelyuskin survivors and the heroic pilots who saved them! by Sokolov-Skalya, Pavel Petrovich (1899-1961)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1934/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ Poster and Grap

The Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin's expedition caravan trapped in a snowstorm in the ice in the upper Indus basin, illustration for Charles Rabot's story in the Journal des Voyages, 1909.

Bandera de Sajonia, región de Alemania, y soldado de infantería. Colección de cromos Banderas del Universo. Años 1920. Author: Albert Mestre Moragas.

Switzerland, 1875-1909 part 1 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Switzerland

Soldiers in uniform and civilians relax outside the Cafe de la Paix, Paris, during the war Date: 1917

'First days of the October Revolution', Russia, 1917 (1949). Artist: Georgi Savitsky

Nazi Germany Labor Service Poster, Reichsarbeitsdienst (We Prepare our Body and Soul), circa mid-1930's

World War I 1914-1918. Soldier in a trench holding a grenade and about to go over the top. Text: And you Subscribe to the 7th War Loan. Austrian poster 1917. Government Finance Bonds Propaganda

Cartoon showing Abdulaziz of Morocco the Sultan of Morocco, (left) was deposed in 1908. Seen here with General d'Amade and Abdelhafid of Morocco (Mulai Abdelhafid), Sultan of Morocco from 1908 to 1912.

News. / Debacle.

Sketches and Drawings of WW I - German soldiers cleaning the streets of Belgium

World War I 1914-1918. Food for the troops: A French butchery near the front. Front cover of 'Le Pays de France', Paris, 7 January 1915.

Fenetre ROSTA, 1920, (Russian State Telegraph Agency) Caricature on the Red Army by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) Soviet poet, playwright and draughtsman. Russia USSR Communism Communist

España. Guerra civil 1936-1939. Contraportada de la revista El Ejército popular. Dibujo de Llorens Brunet (1873-1939). Barcelona, anúmero 5, de mayo 1937. Author: Llorenç Brunet Torroll.

Japanese soldiers entering China during the invasion of 1937

World War One was to have a devastating impact on Russia. When World War One started in August 1914, Russia responded by patriotically rallying around Nicholas II. Military disasters at the Masurian Lakes and Tannenburg greatly weakened the Russian Army in the initial phases of the war. The growing influence of Gregory Rasputin over the Romanovs did a great deal to damage the royal family and by the end of the spring of 1917, the Romanovs, who had ruled Russia for just over 300 years, were no longer in charge of a Russia that had been taken over by Kerensky and the Provisional Government. By the end of 1917, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin had taken power in the major cities of Russia and introduced communist rule in those areas it controlled. The transition in Russia over the space of four years was remarkable - the fall of an autocracy and the establishment of the worlds first communist government.

Join the march. For Peace. August 23, 1937.

Futuristic underwater warfare, with UFO-shaped submarines and soldiers (or sailors) in diving gear on the seabed. Date: 1899

25 June 1916 - Serbia Day', French World War I poster, 1916. Soldiers and civilians make their way across a snowy field. Serbia was conquered by the combined armies of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria in 1915, suffering appalling military and civilian casualties in the process. By the Swiss artist Theophile Alexandre Steinlen.

Cartoon, plump German women in uniform, one of them causing a horse to collapse under her weight, and another two who have just been called the last bastions of the empire. Date: 1916

March of the Red Banner Women, Chinese Communist Propaganda

All for the Victory!, Russia WW I

The Red Army brings freedom from the fascist yoke! by Shmarinov, Dementi Alexeevich (1907-1999)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1944/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ History,Poster and Graphic design

Black Cat Cigarettes, World war One, propaganda card showing: a German optician, saying to a Dutch patient: 'What are you reading now' The Dutchman responds 'Deutschland über Alles'. The optician replies: 'That's right: these glasses fit you well.'

Nineteen Years of the Soviet Union and the Fight for Freedom and World Peace, Spanish Civil War

Italian world War Two postcard showing an infantry soldier with his gas mask carrying an artillery shell

Serbians (both military and civilian personnel) crossing the River Drina into Albania or what is now Yugoslavia. World War One, 1916

First World War 1914-1918. Drawing of the 7th war bond of the Wiener Handelsbank. Austrian poster shows soldiers and their weapons behind a gold barricade, 1917.

Scene depicting French women in war-time. One woman is working in a factory, one is nursing her child, and another woman is hoeing in the field. In the background is an outline of Victory. French women made up over 40 percent of the work force during the war. Over two million were recruited into positions in heavy industry.

Colonel Frid listening to the German Major Vara, just arrived from Spa, regarding goods left in Belgium, 1918, by Alexis de Broca (born 1868-1948), drawing. World War I, Belgium, 20th century.

Our general grills. / The brave general vinoy. / No. 2.

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